[Esug-list] About ANSI Smalltalk

[Janko Mivšek]

Hello all,


I'm wondering what is an ESUG stance about the proposed standardization 
effort? I think we as a vibrant and influencing community of European 
Smalltalkers must be on that train too and cooperate as effectively as 
possible. Therefore I propose that a member for the ANSI board is chosen 
and ESUG pays those USD 1.200 yearly for him.

Best regards
Janko


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: ANSI Smalltalk
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:52:53 +0000
From: Bruce Badger <bbadger at openskills.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk

Fellow Smalltalkers,

Work is underway to get the Smalltalk ANSI standardization process
restarted.  This is intended to be an on-going process which delivers a
new version of the standard every 18 months to 2 years.

The participation of all Smalltalkers is invited.  The ANSI standard
should be driven by the people who use Smalltalk as well as people who
develop Smalltalk environments.  Work on the standard will all happen
through a mailing list:

http://lists.openskills.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ansi-smalltalk

The list archive is open and anyone may join the list.  The only
requirement is that you give your full name when signing up so everyone
knows who is who.

While anyone can get involved in discussion and informal votes, only
people who are registered with the ANSI project may formally vote.
Registration in this context means joining INCITS (the organization
which coordinates IT ANSI standards work), and that costs $1,200 USD.

Already we have the Smalltalk vendor companies getting involved.  We
also need people representing the user community.  If you work in a
company that uses Smalltalk please raise this ANSI work at your next
team meeting and see if you can have someone (or more than one) from
your project join the ANSI Smalltalk mailing list.  Perhaps your company
could fund the $1,200 to have someone be a voting member of the
committee too.

If you wish to discuss the ANSI project please either join the mailing
list or post a message to comp.lang.smalltalk.  The news group is the
cross-dialect discussion forum for Smalltalk and the ANSI standard is
most certainly cross-dialect.

Best regards,
     Bruce